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...TIFFANY NETWORK Katie Couric settles her digitally slenderized posterior into the anchor chair warmed previously by gentle white men. The newscaster promptly strikes a blow for gender equality by conducting her all-grown-up softball mainstream-media interview with the President. You go, girl...
...take long, however, for 9/11 to lose the look of a truly earth-shattering event. It was, after all, scarcely a revelation that radical Islamist organizations like al-Qaeda posed a threat to the U.S.; they had tried to blow up the World Trade Center once before. Nor did 9/11 cause the severe economic disruption its plotters had intended. The attacks were spectacular, as bin Laden had hoped. Yet for most people--save the relatives of those killed--life returned to normal in a surprisingly short time...
...their efforts to monitor and penetrate terrorist networks. And there were some major successes. In June 2006 Canadian police arrested suspected terrorists who had about 3 tons of ammonium nitrate in their possession. Two months later, British authorities were able to announce the disruption of a plot to blow up multiple transatlantic flights--which would have caused, in the words of the deputy commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, "mass murder on an unimaginable scale...
...some cases buying second-rate alternatives from Belarus, Ukraine or China. Most of those are bias-ply tires rather than radials. The difference? Radials generally last 5,000 to 7,000 hr., depending on conditions; bias tires may last just a third as long and are more likely to blow under stress...
...where you will stand in line for hours at the beginning of each semester to buy overpriced textbooks. 2. Where you will never go once you realize Ebay is a hell of a lot cheaper. 3. Rhymes with “loop,” not “blow...